Movies like Freshman Orientation (2004)
The best movies like Freshman Orientation (2004) are Sorority Boys (2002), Accepted (2006) and National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002). If Freshman Orientation hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Girl Next Door (2004)6.8/10 from 4,253 votes
- NewestBrain Drain 2 (2011)Released 2011
Sorority Boys (2002)
After being falsely accused of stealing the budget for their annual cocktail cruise, three very different fraternity brothers are kicked out of their dorm. In order to clear their name and to secure their future careers, the three dress up in drag and pledge the sorority next door where they learn a few valuable - and hilarious - lessons about themselves and the female species.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAccepted (2006)
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNational Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in college, so he and his friends come up with a great fund-raising idea – throwing parties. However, when the college magazine finds out and reporter Gwen is sent to do a story on Van Wilder, things get a little complicated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLoser (2000)
On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty professor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisVan Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (2006)
Taj Mahal Badalandabad leaves Coolidge College behind for the halls of Camford University in England, where he looks to continue his education, and teach an uptight student how to make the most out of her academic career.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisVan Wilder: Freshman Year (2009)
It is freshman year at Coolidge College and Van Wilder is ready to party. To his dismay, all the girls have taken a vow of chastity and the dean rules the school. Van embarks on a crusade to land the campus hottie, Kaitlin, and liberate his school from sexual oppression and party dysfunction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisRoad Trip (2000)
After a student at the University of Ithaca films his one-night stand with a beautiful sorority girl, he discovers one of his friends has accidentally mailed the homemade sex tape to his girlfriend in Austin. In a frenzy, he must borrow a car and hit the road in a desperate bid to intercept the tape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like this100 Girls (2000)
Matthew, a college freshman, meets his dream girl in a dorm elevator during a blackout. He never sees her face, but instantly falls in love. In the morning, the power is restored, but the "dream girl" has vanished. All Matthew knows is that she lives in an all-girls dorm. He sets out on a semester-long journey to find his mystery girl among a hundred female suspects. Could it be Wendy? Dora? Arlene? Patty? Cynthia? Or the 95 other girls, any of whom could have been in that elevator with Matthew.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Pie (1999)
At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl Next Door (2004)
Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn star. As Danielle's past catches up with her, Matthew's love for her forces him to re-evaluate his goals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSydney White (2007)
College freshman Sydney White arrives at Southern Atlantic University, determined to pledge her late mother's sorority. Unfortunately, she finds that the sisterhood has changed since her parent's day. Banished to a condemned house, Sydney joins forces with seven outcasts to take over the student government and win equal rights for nerd and noted alike.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Pie Presents: Beta House (2007)
Erik, Ryan, and Cooze start college and pledge the Beta House fraternity, presided over by none other than legendary Dwight Stifler. But chaos ensues when a fraternity of geeks threatens to stop the debauchery and the Betas have to make a stand for their right to party.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGoing Greek (2001)
Loner freshman Jake Taylor is forced to join the wildest fraternity on campus when the frat brothers refuse to accept his geeky cousin/roommate unless Jake agrees to pledge with him. As the semester progresses, Jake struggles to maintain his grades as well as his affair with Paige, a beautiful sophomore who hates all fraternities. Through naked scavenger hunts, sorority ass-signings and all night
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The House Bunny (2008)
Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal, they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men; at the same time, Shelley needs some of what the Zetas have - a sense of individuality. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Pie 2 (2001)
After a year apart - attending different schools, meeting different people - the guys rent a beach house and vow to make this the best summer ever. As it turns out, whether that will happen or not has a lot to do with the girls. Between the wild parties, outrageous revelations and yes, a trip to band camp, they discover that times change and people change, but in the end, it's all about sticking together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNational Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze (2003)
When a foreign-exchange student and a hooker - both named Dominique - show up on a college campus, the unsuspecting student body is in for the education of a lifetime!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBoys and Girls (2000)
Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they meet in college, the uptight Ryan and the free-spirited Jennifer find that their differences bind them together and a rare friendship develops.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTomcats (2001)
College buddies chip in and promise that the group's last unmarried man will collect a cash pot. Seven years later, the kitty is worth $500,000 -- money Michael needs to pay a gambling debt. Problem is, the only other single guy is a hopeless womanizer!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006)
When Erik Stifler realizes that he's the only Stifler family member who might graduate high school a virgin, he decides to live up to his legacy. After some well-meaning advice from Jim's dad, Erik's ready to take his chances at the annual and infamous Naked Mile race, where his devoted friends and some uninhibited sorority girls will create the most outrageous weekend ever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCan't Hardly Wait (1998)
It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrain Drain 2 (2011)
Alfonso, pursues the girl of his life to Harvard, determined to conquer her under the same friends and outlandish plans that his brother used in Oxford. But when you least expect it appears Martha, the girl he fell in love while at school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisOld School (2003)
Three friends attempt to recapture their glory days by opening up a fraternity near their alma mater.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006)
When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisShe's All That (1999)
High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees to a seemingly impossible challenge. He has six weeks to gain the trust of nerdy outcast Laney Boggs -- and help her to become the school's next prom queen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSlackers (2002)
Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely dude in school. Self-dubbed Cool Ethan, an ambitious nerd with a bad crush, enters their lives one day and everything begins to unravel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisGoing the Distance (2004)
Nick is a successful young man whose comfortable West Coast life couldn't be better. However, when his girlfriend falls under the influence of lecherous music producer Lenny Swackhammer, Nick impulsively decides to travel to Toronto to intervene. Nick's buddies Tyler and Dime opt to turn the quest into a cross-country road trip that's complete with wacky antics and encounters with beautiful women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSorority Wars (2009)
Katie, a college freshman, has been groomed from birth to continue her mother’s legacy with the Deltas. When Katie decides to pledge another house instead, an all-out sorority war commences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhatever It Takes (2000)
A nerdy teen, Ryan Woodman is smitten with the popular and gorgeous Ashley Grant, who apparently has no interest in him. Meanwhile, dim star athlete Chris Campbell has his eye on Ryan's brainy and beautiful friend, Maggie Carter. The two agree to help each other in their romantic quests, but, as they come closer to their goals, both Ryan and Chris suspect that they might be pursuing the wrong girls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisDown to You (2000)
College coeds in New York City, Al, the son of a celebrity chef, and Imogen, a talented artist, become smitten the second they lay eyes on one another at a bar. However, the road to happiness is not a smooth one. Outside forces, including a predatory porn star who wants to lure Al into her bed, threaten to pull apart the young lovers before their romance has a chance to really flourish.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisEating Out: All You Can Eat (2009)
Tiffani attempts to help her geeky but very cute friend Casey find true love - or at least a sexy hunk. Taken under Tiffani’s wing, Casey pretends to be Ryan, Tiffani's hot, straight, stripper ex-boyfriend, in order to seduce the smoldering Zack online, which works, until the real Ryan shows up!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Freshman Orientation?
The closest matches to Freshman Orientation are Sorority Boys (2002), Accepted (2006) and National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Freshman Orientation?
People who watched Freshman Orientation most often go on to Sorority Boys (2002), Accepted (2006) and National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002).
What is the highest-rated movie like Freshman Orientation?
The Girl Next Door (2004), rated 6.8/10 by 4,253 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Freshman Orientation?
Brain Drain 2 (2011) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Freshman Orientation?
Yes: Sorority Boys (2002), Accepted (2006) and National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002).
How are movies similar to Freshman Orientation chosen?
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